Berlin winters are long and gray, and kids still need somewhere to run it off. These are the halls we'd head to on a wet afternoon: trampoline parks with foam pits and ninja courses, bouldering gyms with padded kids' zones, and big indoor playgrounds where toddlers get a corner of their own. Here's what we checked, from JUMP House's zip lines to the climbing ship at Boulderklub Kreuzberg.
JUMP House Berlin is a 4,000 m² trampoline hall with 13 attractions under one roof. The standout is the Sky Ninja, an obstacle course 11 m up with a double zip line across the hall. Below it are open trampoline fields, challenge zones, team games and the Valo Arena, where teams take on video-game style challenges.
A good pick for a cold or rainy afternoon when kids need to burn off energy.
Boulderklub Kreuzberg is a bouldering gym with 1,300 square meters of floor: short walls over thick mats, no ropes or harnesses.
Kids climb in their own zone around a climbing ship, marked in yellow on the mats and kept apart from the adult walls, where grown-ups jump and fall from height. A parent stays beside them the whole time, so it is not a drop-off.
SPRUNG.RAUM is a 2,400-square-meter trampoline hall in Marienfelde with more than 50 jump beds. Kids bounce on the free-jump field, practice flips into the foam pit, drop from a trapeze onto a giant airbag, play trampoline dodgeball and run a ninja parkour course. The Grand.Master bed sends confident jumpers up to 6 meters. Trainers with parkour and acrobatics backgrounds help with first tricks.
Magic Mountain is a big climbing hall with roped walls, bouldering areas and an outdoor climbing garden. Autobelay stations let a first-timer climb without a partner after a short briefing at the desk.
Kids can start with a trainer-led taster session, climb alongside their parents in a family session, or join term-long kids training and holiday camps. It suits active kids who like heights.
Bambooland is a jungle-themed indoor playground spread over more than 2,000 square meters inside the small Siemensstadtpark shopping center. Kids work through a big climbing maze, bounce on trampolines and race bobby cars, while the youngest get a separate toddler area. Adults are welcome on every play structure too.
Upstairs, a bistro with more than 400 seats serves fries, nuggets, pizza, salads and coffee.
A 1,500-square-meter indoor play hall. Kids ride a children's train and a chain carousel, climb a soft mountain and a giant inflatable crocodile, and race down double-wave and tube slides in the adventure play structure.
There's also a ball pit, a climbing wall, bouncy castles, face painting and a separate toddler area, plus a cafeteria.
Ostbloc is a bouldering hall of over 1,000 square meters by the Rummelsburger Bucht, open since 2010. Bouldering means climbing at jump-off height with no ropes or harness, over thick mats, at every difficulty level.
Kids under 8 have their own Kinderland area. Under-12s who want the main mats first take the Boulderführerschein, a course done with a parent that covers the hall rules.
Der Kegel is a climbing gym built around a former bunker, now an 18-meter cone-shaped climbing tower on the RAW grounds in Friedrichshain. Around it sit 550 square meters of indoor and outdoor bouldering up to 4 meters, across every grade, plus a small roof terrace with a snack bar.
Rope climbing on the tower is lead-only with your own rope, so most families come to boulder.
Dockx is a 1,000-square-meter indoor playground at the Tempelhofer Hafen, right on the water. Kids climb a multi-level frame with new rope nets, race on a kart track, take the wave slide, and run the maze to the ball cannons. A separate, sheltered toddler area has small slides, soft play pieces and ball pits.
Parents get a café, a bar and sofas with a view of the play area.
Berlin winters are long and gray, and kids still need somewhere to run it off. These are the halls we'd head to on a wet afternoon: trampoline parks with foam pits and ninja courses, bouldering gyms with padded kids' zones, and big indoor playgrounds where toddlers get a corner of their own. Here's what we checked, from JUMP House's zip lines to the climbing ship at Boulderklub Kreuzberg.
JUMP House Berlin is a 4,000 m² trampoline hall with 13 attractions under one roof. The standout is the Sky Ninja, an obstacle course 11 m up with a double zip line across the hall. Below it are open trampoline fields, challenge zones, team games and the Valo Arena, where teams take on video-game style challenges.
A good pick for a cold or rainy afternoon when kids need to burn off energy.
Boulderklub Kreuzberg is a bouldering gym with 1,300 square meters of floor: short walls over thick mats, no ropes or harnesses.
Kids climb in their own zone around a climbing ship, marked in yellow on the mats and kept apart from the adult walls, where grown-ups jump and fall from height. A parent stays beside them the whole time, so it is not a drop-off.
SPRUNG.RAUM is a 2,400-square-meter trampoline hall in Marienfelde with more than 50 jump beds. Kids bounce on the free-jump field, practice flips into the foam pit, drop from a trapeze onto a giant airbag, play trampoline dodgeball and run a ninja parkour course. The Grand.Master bed sends confident jumpers up to 6 meters. Trainers with parkour and acrobatics backgrounds help with first tricks.
Magic Mountain is a big climbing hall with roped walls, bouldering areas and an outdoor climbing garden. Autobelay stations let a first-timer climb without a partner after a short briefing at the desk.
Kids can start with a trainer-led taster session, climb alongside their parents in a family session, or join term-long kids training and holiday camps. It suits active kids who like heights.
Bambooland is a jungle-themed indoor playground spread over more than 2,000 square meters inside the small Siemensstadtpark shopping center. Kids work through a big climbing maze, bounce on trampolines and race bobby cars, while the youngest get a separate toddler area. Adults are welcome on every play structure too.
Upstairs, a bistro with more than 400 seats serves fries, nuggets, pizza, salads and coffee.
A 1,500-square-meter indoor play hall. Kids ride a children's train and a chain carousel, climb a soft mountain and a giant inflatable crocodile, and race down double-wave and tube slides in the adventure play structure.
There's also a ball pit, a climbing wall, bouncy castles, face painting and a separate toddler area, plus a cafeteria.
Ostbloc is a bouldering hall of over 1,000 square meters by the Rummelsburger Bucht, open since 2010. Bouldering means climbing at jump-off height with no ropes or harness, over thick mats, at every difficulty level.
Kids under 8 have their own Kinderland area. Under-12s who want the main mats first take the Boulderführerschein, a course done with a parent that covers the hall rules.
Der Kegel is a climbing gym built around a former bunker, now an 18-meter cone-shaped climbing tower on the RAW grounds in Friedrichshain. Around it sit 550 square meters of indoor and outdoor bouldering up to 4 meters, across every grade, plus a small roof terrace with a snack bar.
Rope climbing on the tower is lead-only with your own rope, so most families come to boulder.
Dockx is a 1,000-square-meter indoor playground at the Tempelhofer Hafen, right on the water. Kids climb a multi-level frame with new rope nets, race on a kart track, take the wave slide, and run the maze to the ball cannons. A separate, sheltered toddler area has small slides, soft play pieces and ball pits.
Parents get a café, a bar and sofas with a view of the play area.
